Please remove wolfram-enginge and related packages
  • piplayah
    I am currently dealing with a “package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting configuration.” problem. It is due to a faulty installation of wolfram-engine.

    As far as I know, PiPlay is meant to be a distribution that focuses on emulation :)
    Is the Wolfram Engine really necessary? The install package takes up close to 500 MB (not counting any possible dependencies) and it seems dumb to bloat a distribution meant to be run on perhaps small 4 GB sd cards.

    Is Wolfram Alpha just something leftover from the Raspbian distro?
  • piplayah
    I've already solved the problem btw... it just made me think about whether any emulators actually use that package.
  • beta_tester
    the PiPLAY image is not a minimal one,
    it is just the defaults Raspbian plus PiPLAY addition on top.
    so all un-necessary crap like wolfram-engine, scratch, sonicPi, and so on is still there.
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    would it be possible to do this:

    http://henryranch.net/hardware/raspberry-pi-remove-wolfram-and-reclaim-some-space/

    without having any negative influence on piplay?
  • beta_tester
    wolfram engine has non positive and non negative influence to piplay... it is just there and steals diskspace... and in case of upgrading, it takes a lot of download and upgrade time...

    sure, you can purge/remove it... there is no need for wolfram emgine.
    sudo apt-get -y purge wolfram-engine
    sudo apt-get -y autoremove
    sudo apt-get -y autoclean
    is save to do.
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    thanks beta_tester,
    once the new update is out I will flash a new disk and try this.

    Regards
    Martin
  • krayzielilsmoki
    Can we get this baked into the next update if its not too late?
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